According to Verge, New York City's Lexington Avenue subway line serves more riders than the entire Washington Metro.
Which is cool, chill, impressive, whatever you want to call it. But that also makes it difficult to ensure that that subway riding is as safe as it possibly can be.
And since more than one million people ride on the Lexington Avenue line every single day, trying to shove yourself onto a 4, 5, or 6 rush hour train will almost certainly guarantee you a horrendously suffocating experience.
In order to relieve the current pressure on the Lexington Avenue line, as you probably know all too well, the MTA has been building a new subway line on 2nd Avenue.
[anad]
And to quell our anxiousness that it'll still be another year-and-a-half before the line is finished, the MTA even made a 2nd Avenue subway simulator so we can check out how awesome it's going to be.
But that, obviously, wasn't good enough. So now, MTA's grand solution is... (drumroll please)...
Stickers!
Oh, wait. Nobody's stoked about stickers? The MTA is pilot testing these stickers at the 51st Street and Lexington Avenue station.
The #StepAside pilot program is coming to the 51 St #6 station. Check it out here: http://t.co/YJDcibmDkd pic.twitter.com/FiL2QmxuAp
— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) July 28, 2015
Wait, do they really think plastering a sticker on the ground that reads "Step Aside" will solve our subway etiquette and overcrowding issues?
Call us naysayers, but we really think the people who spent time and energy on these stickers should have focused on the real solution: building the 2nd Avenue subway faster. Much faster.
We're just saying. Pretty sure that stickers on the ground won't change a thing. Except that they'll probably get really dirty really quickly.
Which isn't really helping anyone.
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